Eros, Consciousness, and Kundalini: Deepening Sensuality through Tantric Celibacy and Spiritual Intimacy
Exercises based on yoga and chakra meditation teach you to transform sexual energy into spiritual and erotic fulfillment.\ • Perfect for deepening a life partnership, gaining mastery over one's body, or healing the emotional scars of sexual abuse.\ • Well-illustrated positions and techniques.\ In this extraordinary celebration of the erotic, Dr. Stuart Sovatsky introduces us to the Tantric art of sexual sublimation, in which sexual energy is redirected toward achieving higher awareness and an...
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In this extraordinary celebration of the erotic, Dr. Stuart Sovatsky introduces us to the Tantric art of sexual sublimation. Exercises based on yoga, kundalini, and chakra meditation help readers learn to harness the divine energy at the heart of all erotic yearning, while exploring the intimate relationship between spirituality and sexuality. Yoga Journal "Sovatsky's fascinating and highly readable work belongs to the new sexual revolution, which pays due attention to the spiritual context of our lives."
Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: There Are Untold Possibilities A Most Unusual Invitation The Possibilities Begin to Unfold Celibacy Becomes Provocative: The Tantric Spin The Tantric Paradox of an Erotic Celibacy Reclaiming Your Vulnerabilities Through Tantra 1. From Harry's Bar to the Mysteries Tantric sublimation The Sublimative Sex Drive Going All the Way with Tantric Celibacy 2. Eros as Mystery: The Key to Furthering Our Erotic Liberation The Sexo-Political Burlesque More Mystery, Less Liberation and Rules Mystery's Inquisition Sharing the Wonder Beyond the Limitations: Can the Sense of Mystery Free Us? Entering the Mystery: From Cynical to Meditative-Knowing 3. Mysteries Meet: The Celibate Encounter Tantric Celibacy in the Great Anonymous of Modern Culture The Shared-Gender Mystery The Prosthesis of an Owned Sexuality Homosexual Mystery 4. Choosing Tantric Sublimation Why You Might Choose Brahmacharya 5. The Ars Erotica of Yoga Meditation: The Silent Partner to Conventional Sex Meditation Follows the Mystery: The Yogic "All" in Going All the Way A Moment of Silence The Yogic Anatomy of Human Potentialities 6. Yoga Practice as Ars Erotica The Practices 7. Relational Worship The Great Gesture Nyasa Mystery of Balance Pranic Mirroring The Singular Celibate Kiss Breathing Mystery Mantra Chanting Ritual Worship of Mystery Problems, Difficulties, and Other Knots 8. Grounding in the Ordinary: Tantric Relating in Everyday Life Spoken Passion Commitment and Marriage When Eros Is Mystery Creating New Life: The Passions of Fertility The Way of Solitary Celibacy Epilogue An Open Ending Appendix 1 What Every Teenager Should Know About Tantric Sublimmation The Core of Your Body: The Yogic Spinal Pathway Brahmacharya and Emotional and Spiritual Growth Appendix 2 The Future of a Mystery: Toward an Ecology of the Erotic The Contemporary Sexual Scene Toward an Ecology of the Erotic The Fourfold Mapping of the Erotic Mystery Glossary Bibliography Index
\ From the Publisher\ "Tantra is widely and grossly misunderstood in the West. In Eros, Consciousness, and Kundalini Dr. Sovatsky provides a much-needed corrective, revealing Tantra's most powerful aspect: the conversion of sexual energy into a higher consciousness-altering vitality."\ \ \ \ \ Georg Feuerstein"Tantra is widely and grossly misunderstood in the West. In Eros, Consciousness, and Kundalini Dr. Sovatsky provides a much-needed corrective, revealing Tantra's most powerful aspect: the conversion of sexual energy into a higher consciousness-altering vitality."\ \ \ Yoga Journal"Sovatsky's fascinating and highly readable work belongs to the new sexual revolution, which pays due attention to the spiritual context of our lives."\ \ \ \ \ Napra Trade Journal"Extraordinary excursion into the realm of Tantric celibacy provides a surprisingly tantalizing portrait of the power and passion of true erotic awareness. Sovatsky's book gives new meaning to the experience of eros and relationship while opening a door to a spiritual dimension we would never have achieved under ordinary circumstances."\ \
